these definitely have way too much brown because I forgot to trim the cane before putting these in, but the next batch will hopefully look better!

I've just gone to order some more zona papers and I can't seem to find any for sale in Australia, just ebay and etsy shipping from the US.

I really do like the feel of the Zona and have gotten better results compared to regular sandpaper, but I don't really want to be relying on resellers for materials. Have any other Aussies found something else that works just as well? Or am I going back to rough sand and dremel polish

Unboxing my latest cast silver dice, ready to be fettled, forged, stamped and polished for my favourite redditor!

Hello , Liquid silicone is too expensive for me and I am playing with an idea to use liquid latex instead.
Has anyone tried it ? Thanks

I’m not sure this is the right place for this or not but I’m not sure where else to look (suggestions welcome). My sister plays DnD and I want to get her a custom die made with a cicada shell inside but I don’t know how to go about doing this. Is this something someone in here might be able to do, or direct me somewhere that could?

So I bought my CAT pressure pot over a year ago and only got around to using it last weekend. I tried to fill it up to 40 psi but it wouldn’t go past 25. The dice came out great still.

I then tinkered with it, filled it up again but it still wouldn’t go past 25psi and then the emergency pressure valve released which makes me think it hit dangerous levels of pressure that the gauge wasn’t detecting.

Has anyone else had this issue? What would you recommend I do? I want to make dice and this pot was expensive but now it’s past warranty. I’d appreciate any help.

It's very hard to capture the deep look of them properly but I gave it my best shot

I’m out traveling and while waiting for a show, I painted these but I didn’t have everything to clean them up sadly. But when I get home I will. I’m excited to see these babies cleaned up!!

I'm trying to decide if a one piece or two piece jig would be better.

Hello Dice Making!
I have been busy making a lot of new dice and keep forgetting to show you!
I have been working on making standard sets, coffin sets, oversized D20s and D6D pip sets!
This collection has been super fun to create, wrestling with Opal clay and practising my faux-wood style!

I hope you like them!
Thank you for being here
Archival Dice 🖤✨

So this is the first time I've tried to get anything to suspend in the resin, and to better understand the timing each dice was poured 5min apart. So first pour was done right after mixing, and last pour was done 35min after pouring, and I would say it was past the honey stage. I had to scrape it out of the mixing cup and into the mold.

Despite being that thick all of it settled on the bottom more or less.

My next attempt is going to be the glue trick people have mentioned, but I don't see anyone mentioning measurements past "a couple drops", which is super unhelpful and vague. I can trial and error it out, but there's not a lot of warm days left in the year to make my attempts. So I was wondering if anyone had a more exact drop count of glue per 40mL of resin, and if they could include the exact brand of glue used with what brand of epoxy (I'm trying out Let's Resin brand at the moment).

Hola buenas

Yo echo dados por varios años, no como Emprendimiento sino como Hobby, pero ya me eh cansado de las burbujas y así, sin importar que sales casa tanto más si es una mezcla elaborada

Quería saber si me conviene una máquina así

https://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/up/MLAU3743776349?matt_tool=89488245&pdp_filters=item_id:MLA2801817114&ua=xBvOjw0MjETuTmuNocqJTiBlDRWHGRMnFKI3u8DO4A70Lto#origin=share&sid=share&wid=MLA2801817114&action=copy

O directamente comprar las típicas cámaras

https://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/p/MLA2029534699?matt_tool=89488245&pdp_filters=item_id:MLA1946936709&ua=0mPJnpiubwWqx1GobTW9JkghLh2F358R3LzyA9ou4s40DmU#origin=share&sid=share&wid=MLA1946936709&action=copy

Recently finished and painted all of these guys, really happy with how they all turned out ❤️

Hey everyone! I am having a fear about some dice i am making for a friend and her bridesmaids. I am using parts of their bouquets flowers/leaves as inserts into the dice.

Now, I havent seriously made dice for a couple years so I am a bit rusty.

My process was collecting the flower and putting them in silica gel for 2 days to let them completely dry out. I then mixed the resin and waited about 15 mins and soaking each piece for a minute before inserting into my mold. After pouring and inserting I waited another 10 minutes to start meticulously pop bubbles that came up. After the bubbles seemed to subside, even during, I noticed all the flowers and such were rising right to the top.

I know once I pull them tomorrow the additions will all be sitting on the top face. I recall reading that using a bit of normal white elmers glue would help keep glitter afloat, but i dont remember how much or if maybe I am thinking of something else completely. If not, would that help in this situation?

Or any other tips that might help this journey? I have a lot of material to work with so if i have to do a couple rounds it will be all good.

I am recovering from shoulder replacement surgery. I had one of my friends driving me around and he was curious about the dice making process. Well, being one armed, I had him do the entire process for his own customs. A swirl, a petri, and a dirty with hidden glow. He is finishing up the inking and I'll see the finished products here in a couple days.

Hi makers! I've been having some recurring defects in my mold I wanted to see if anyone else has experienced and how you fixed them

1-Marks on the dice faces. I suspect these are where new silicone has seeped into the dice holes(?) when poring the lid, then gets forced out again when put in the pressure pot. Not enough silicone is left to deform the faces, but its enough to leave a mark I have to sand out later. Is there a particular way to peel the film off from the first pour without breaking the seal around the exposed dice face? I'm using the book cover film to stick the dice down and hot gluing around the housing, when pouring the lid I'm getting some bubbles coming up from around the dice.

2-deforms around the D20 face. This only happens with the D20 and happens worse when its in the middle. There's a lot of extra material around the exposed face of the d20, and you can see extra silicone on the lid compared to the other dice. I'm not sure if this is just a worse version of problem 1 or if its something else. This only seems to happen to my d20!

If anyone has had either of these before or has some advice I'd love to hear it!

Top is with flash.. bottom w/o.. I used translucent purple and neon green dyes and added green mica to the purple.. I think I should have let it honey a bit more before.. I also spiked some extra mica in from the top before capping.. any tips.. pointers? I think im gonna try bright yellow ink.. Tia 😘

Hola voy a empezar a hacer dados, estaba buscando los materiales para hacerlos y hay un montón de tipos de resinas en el mercado, he buscado y no entiendo mucho lo del grosor máximo de colada, en las resinas que he visto por amazon creo que no lo específica, y de todas formas ni se si el grosor máximo se tiene mucho en cuenta, gracias.

Hi everyone!
I’m looking into starting my own handmade dice business and would love some recommendations for someone who makes high-quality, custom silicone dice molds!
I don’t own a 3D printer and don’t have experience making molds myself, so I’m hoping to find someone who can handle that part for me.
Ideally, I’m looking for someone who offers:
● Custom sharp-edge, 7-piece polyhedral dice molds
● Matching blank molds for creating layered designs and inclusions
● Customization options for fonts, numbering, logos, and potentially unique dice shapes or edge details
● High-quality molds that produce clean, sharp edges and require minimal finishing
● Molds that can be used to produce dice for commercial sale
I’d love to work with someone who is open to discussing designs and making adjustments to get everything just right. I’m definitely willing to pay for quality work, but I’m also trying to be mindful of startup costs.
If you’ve worked with someone you love, make custom molds yourself, or have any recommendations, I’d really appreciate hearing them!
Also, if anyone has advice on what to look for (or avoid) when ordering custom molds, I’d love to hear that too!
Thanks so much! 🎲💕

I poured a new batch and got this result which I'm fairly pleased with 😁

Used some blue mica powder with white and purple ink for a dirty pour. Sadly the colors don’t really show up except for the d20.

I used pigment ink for the first time and man I love the colors and effect on them so far. This is my 3rd batch of using them. The first two were fails but now I know what I need to do so yay! I’m getting better at prevents bubbles without a pressure pot so that’s even better news! Now I need to get better at taking photos of my babies

At first I didn't like them but my friend called them "midwinter night" so here we are. Also, 3 hours ago, someone posted my nebula dice as their own, which is weird. But I guess it's a new form of flattery